The overexploitation of the Levantina coast, located facing the Mediterranean Sea, is a problem generated and aggravated during the last decades on the Spanish coasts thanks to the mixture of negligence, ineffectiveness, speculation and political corruption of the different parties in the government.
This images show the human activity and the trace of human presence in a context of natural environment which has been clearly disturbed. Apartment buildings practically entering into the sea, occupying each space to the limit, roads that are lost without seeing its possible end, wheel tracks in the sand showing the intention to tear off a piece of land, images that glimpse buildings inside the beach itself, and even the human activity altering the normal flow of the waters to the Mediterranean Sea.
More than a third of the Spanish Mediterranean coast is already fully urbanised. The Sustainability Observatory reveals that 22 kilometres of the Spanish coast are urbanised every year.
Juan Jose Martinez Photographer
